On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Sounds like the kernel is not able to read the full disk. 160GB is > larger than old-style IDE hardware can address, and so older kernels > will not support it.
I can confirm this, I hit the same problem about a year ago. > I'm not sure if the 2.4.18 kernel available on the Woody install CDs will > work here, but it's worth a try. At the time I installed, bf2.4 didn't help - the relevant patch had not made it into the main kernel tree, it was only in -ac. But I don't remember whether bf2.4 used 2.4.16 or 2.4.18 then. A workaround is to install using a filing system which you can later (once a newer kernel is installed) grow beyond the 128G mark. These days, AFAIK ext2, reiserfs and xfs allow resizing of the filesystem - I'd go for reiserfs! In contrast to Alain I started off with an unpartitioned HD, so cfdisk just reported a size of 128G. Alain, to make cfdisk accept the HD, you should try deleting _under_Windows_ the partition(s) on the disk which lie beyond 128G (L: AFAICT). The XP partition manager has a nice graphical display of where the partitions are located on disk, they should be easy to identify
